The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . Rev. Dr. Bransbys Establishment at The School Play-Ground at Stoke-Newington. SCHOOL DATS IN RICHMOND. 29 to Mr. Allan for publication. It is due to thejudicious advice of Professor Clarke that theverses were not published at that time. It is,however, to be regretted that they were notprinted then, that the volume might have servedas an enduring monument of the poets remark-able literary precocity. Their publication couldhardly have intensified the boys self-esteem,already inordinately developed by the continuedindulgences of Mr. Allan. Both P
The life of Edgar Allan Poe .. . Rev. Dr. Bransbys Establishment at The School Play-Ground at Stoke-Newington. SCHOOL DATS IN RICHMOND. 29 to Mr. Allan for publication. It is due to thejudicious advice of Professor Clarke that theverses were not published at that time. It is,however, to be regretted that they were notprinted then, that the volume might have servedas an enduring monument of the poets remark-able literary precocity. Their publication couldhardly have intensified the boys self-esteem,already inordinately developed by the continuedindulgences of Mr. Allan. Both Professor Clarke and the survivingschoohnates of Poe unite in speaking of him asa generous, brave, and unselfish boy. Hisfavorites were John S. L. Preston, now colonelin the United States army, and instructor in theVirginia Military Institute, and Robert Sully,nephew of the artist, Thomas Sully. YoungSully, who afterwards became an artist of morethan ordinary talent, was, as a boy, of delicatephysique, and of the most refined and sensitivetemperament, yet so irritable and suspiciou
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